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Research files from work on the history of the Chinese in the Riverina ("Tracking the Dragon").
Dr Barry McGowan, historianMemories of Cobb and Co; Robert Givson and the Birth of the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area; "Where the Porcupine Crossed the River" (Illiliwa); River Shipping on the Murrumbidgee; The Riverine Grazier, Hay's Newspaper; Hay Gun Club; Waradgery Shire, 1906-1960; Federal Parliamentary Representation of Hay and District; Early Days of Permewan Wright Ltd.; Booligal Post Office.
Hay Historical Society Inc.Hay Bridge Opening 1874; Hay Public School; Early Days of the Hay Post Office; Memories of the Big Dust Blow of 1900; The Lamorna "Kid Cart" was the first school bus; Shearing in the Good Old Days; Water for the Murrumbidgee - the role of the Water Users Association; Bank of New South Wales Centenary; HB Maclure and The Ringer Store; The Mossgiel Skull.
Hay Historical Society Inc.
Minutes, accounts and supporting papers, note books, correspondence, Area Committee files, submissions, grants, financial statements, index cards, subject files, personnel files, daily logs, reports, discussion papers, photographs and newspaper clippings.
Riverina Council for Social Development
Reports, conference and convention papers, speech notes, newspaper cuttings and notes and submissions to the Pastures Protection Board Enquiry, Family and Business papers re T. Bull & Co. and Bull Bros. Yarramundi Pastoral Co. Pty. Ltd., Darlington Point.
Tom Bull, politician
Maps and plans (includes Soldier Settlement Estates).
NSW Crown Lands, Wagga Wagga Office
Subject and correspondence files.
Jim Small, politician
Subject and correspondence files.
Jim Small, politicianBound volumes of the "The Riverine Grazier" newspaper (1873-1940).
The Riverine Grazier, HayAdministrative files relating to individual Crown Land portions (Cartons 185-203).
Hay Land Office
Administrative and resumption files (WW files).
NSW Valuer General's Office (1999-2000)Letters from internees to Ruth Swan. Report on Internment Camp (1940) by Dr Sydney Morris of the Society of Friends, Sydney.
Ruth Hannah Swann
Administrative files relating to individual Crown Land portions (Cartons 296-316).
Hay Land Office
Baptism registers, Marriage registers, Burial registers, Service registers, Minute books, and other parish records for the Parishes of Ariah Park, Ardlethan and Barellan, Deniliquin, Finley and Tocumwal, Galore, Hay, Hillston, Leeton, and Narrandera. Also, a minute book of the Riverina Liturgical Committee.
Anglican Diocese of RiverinaSunshine and Shadow: sketches of a western parish (1918) [illustrations by AH Moginie]; Out West for Thirty Years: notes of a ministry in the real Australia (1920) [illustrations by AH Moginie]; Tracks Through the Bush: essays and sketches (1923); The Love That Never Faileth (1933); The Far Horizon and Beyond (1937).
Reverend William RobertsonRiverina Studies - retrospect and prospect; A Nineteenth Century Independent Politician, Robert Bliss Wilkinson, MLA for Balranald; 'Riverina Roused' - Representative Support for the Riverina New State Movements of the 1920s and 1930s); Regional Water Wars: River Leagues and the Origins of the Snowy Scheme; The Border Mail - presses, growth and proprietorship; F.A. Tompson - the father of Wagga Wagga; Building Hay: the Witcombe influence; Becoming a City in the Country: postwar Albury.
Don Boadle, historian and academicIncludes "Historic Hay Hertage Walk" unknown author.
Hay Historical Society Inc.